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Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing the state …. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves more emphasis …. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low quantity and poor …
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the education system in Peru has known a considerable development. This …
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Microsimulation constitutes a particularly powerful instrument for evaluating the distributive impact of macro-economic shocks. All existing models applied to developing countries remain static. I develop a dynamic model able to account for the temporal dimension of macro-economic shocks and...
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This paper explores the link between return migration and political outcomes in the origin country, using the case study of Mali. We use electoral and census data at the locality level to investigate the role of return migration on participation rates and electoral competitiveness. First, we run...
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Dual nationality and citizenship, and external voting rights have been granted by a majority of countries for the last …, which translate into voting recommendations that exert strong influence when they come from the migrants. …
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Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a … behaviour, or levels of technology. They have also offered different visions of the relationship between culture and development … difficulty in grasping the articulation between the role of culture (suspected of bringing back “tradition”) and individual …
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-secondary education. Higher efficiency in publ ic spending in schools can bolster growth through two main channels. On the one hand, it …
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